data analytics
By: Sam Koslowsky, Senior Analytic Consultant,
Harte Hanks
The performance of prediction models can be judged using a variety of methods and metrics. Some years ago, I was challenged to arrive at a set of rules that would provide both the analyst and marketer guidance as to how to evaluate results of a predictive modeling exercise. “What?” you ask. “Just look into a
Originally published in University of Chicago News, March 11, 2020 OI, Computer Science scholars collaborate on program to read cuneiform tablets. Twenty-five centuries ago, the “paperwork” of Persia’s Achaemenid Empire was recorded on clay tablets—tens of thousands...
Originally published in a16z.com February 16, 2020 At a technical level, artificial intelligence seems to be the future of software. AI is showing remarkable progress on a range of difficult computer science problems, and the job of...
Originally published by Big Think When it’s a presidential election year, speculation is in the cards. It’s the national pastime. Everyone wants to predict who’ll win. But, man, did people mismanage their own expectations leading up...
By: Mark Krupnik, PhD, Founder and CEO,
Retalon
Since this article will probably come out during Income tax season, let me start with the following example: Suppose we would like to build a program that calculates income tax for people. According to US federal income...
Originally published in Forbes.com, January 29, 2020 Built on several tens of thousands of cameras and what’s claimed to be one of the most advanced facial recognition systems on the planet, Moscow has been quietly switching...
Originally published in Wired.com, January 25, 2020 The BlueDot algorithm scours news reports and airline ticketing data to predict the spread of diseases like those linked to the flu outbreak in China. On January 9, the World...
By: Sam Koslowsky, Senior Analytic Consultant,
Harte Hanks
While I have spent most of my career exploring and leveraging data science, and its associated rigorous analytics, only in the past decade or so have so many managers accepted the obvious- that data driven decision making...
By: Ryan Waliany, Lei Kang, Ernel Murati, Mohammad Shafkat Amin, and Nikolaus Volk
Originally published in Uber Engineering, June 15, 2018 In Uber’s ride-hailing business, a driver picks up a user from a curbside or other location, and then drops them off at their destination, completing a trip. Uber Eats,...
By: Jeremy Fain, CEO and Founder,
Cognitiv
Now that artificial intelligence and machine learning have become increasingly common tools in a business’ arsenal, it is equally important to have employees who are capable of using – or developing – such tools. Chief among them...
